[quote author=Glory2019]God has a message for this world
and he wants this message
proclaimed. It is the message
that was preached by the great
prophets of the Old Testament.
It is the message that was
preached by Jesus Christ when he
was here on this earth. And
it is the message that Jesus
instructed his followers to preach
to the entire world. That
message is: REPENT OF YOUR SINS,
TURN AWAY FROM THEM, AND TURN TO
GOD! Forsake the way of
Darkness and Sin and turn to the
way of Light, Life and Truth
as found in Jesus Christ. If you
do this there is forgiveness
for you. If you do not the
consequences are very dire.
Turn to God. Commit your heart
and life to him. Renounce the
Way of the World. Become a
believer in Jesus Christ and a
follower of His way. Become a
Christian. Jesus said, "I am
the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in me, though
he may die, he shall live. And
whoever lives and believes in
me shall never die." (John
11:25-26) and "I am the way, the
truth and the life. No man comes
to the Father except through
me." (John 14:6). Jesus died for
our sins. By his atonement
we can have life if we serve him.
Christianity is about a personal
relationship with God: a
relationship characterized by a
love of God and the following
of His way, not from fear, but
from love. It is about an
allegiance to God, a commitment
of heart and life to him. It
is about living by God's
principles and rules. It is about
following in God's way. And what
is God's way? The Way of God
is the way taught to us by Jesus
Christ. It is the Way of
Jesus. God's way is the way of
honesty, integrity, goodness,
virtue, moral purity. We live in
a world that is deeply depraved,
very immoral, terribly wicked.
God's way is a way that is
diametrically opposite to the
ways, outlooks and values of this
world. God is a biased being. He
is not tolerant of sin. He
has a very strong bias against
sin. He has created a hell as
punishment for the sinner. The
Bible clearly states that
fornicators, adulterers and
homos*xuals will go to hell.
God's way is a morally straight,
virtuous, clean life. If moral
straightness, chastity and
cleanness are puritanical, then the
Bible is a very puritanical book.
Someone may ask, "What is
sin?" The answer to that question
is, "Sin is what God says is
sin." He is our maker. He tells
us how he expects us to behave.
If we defy him and live however
we please, it is at our own peril.
We have been dully warned. He has
repeatedly given mankind warning
of the consequences of sin. It is
eternal hell. There will be a
day of judgment when all will be
judged. No one will be exempt.
John the Baptist preached a fire
and brimstone message of
repentance. Jesus preached the
same message. We live in a world
that very badly needs to listen
to that message. We live in an age
of great Christian apostasy. It
is everywhere. True Christianity
is very hard to find. Most
Christianity is nominal Christianity.
People go through motions. They
think they are Christians because
they attend a certain church.
They trust what the preacher is
telling them. The true message of
the Bible is rarely heard today.
It is just not socially
acceptable. It is not politically
correct.
Hence it has been altered,
twisted, distorted, diluted, sugar-
coated,
or replaced with a completely
false message just to make it
attractive
and popular with the masses. One
finds the truth by serious reading
of the Bible. That is the only
way. You cannot trust man.
Most people have no convictions.
On religious matters, they don't
know what to think. They are
easily misled. And they are too
lazy
to think or act. So they go with
the flow, follow the crowd. They
think they can't go wrong by
following the crowd. They feel,
"The majority can't be wrong."
Well, that is a terrible mistake.
That is the road to hell. The
crowd is almost always wrong.
Ezek 18:21-23 But if the wicked
will turn from all his sins
that he hath committed, and keep
all my statutes, and do that
which is lawful and right, he
shall surely live, he shall not
die. {22} All his transgressions
that he hath committed, they
shall not be mentioned unto him:
in his righteousness that he
hath done he shall live. {23}
Have I any pleasure at all that
the wicked should die? saith the
Lord GOD: and not that he
should return from his ways, and
live?
1 Cor 6:9-10 Do you not know
that the unrighteous will not
inherit the kingdom of God? Do
not be deceived. Neither
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor homos*xuals,
nor sodomites, {10} nor thieves,
nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor extortioners
will inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 6:7-8 Be not deceived; God
is not mocked: for whatsoever
a man soweth, that shall he also
reap. {8} For he that soweth
to his flesh shall of the flesh
reap corruption; but he that
soweth to the Spirit shall of the
Spirit reap life everlasting.
Gal 5:19-21 Now the works of
the flesh are manifest, which
are these: Adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness,
{20} Idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, {21}
Envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings, and such
like; of the which I tell you
before, as I have also told you
in time past, that they which
do such things shall not inherit
the kingdom of God.
Eph 5:3-12 But fornication, and
all uncleanness, or
covetousness, let it not be once
named among you, as becometh
saints; {4} Neither filthiness,
nor foolish talking, nor
jesting, which are not
convenient: but rather giving of
thanks.
{5} For this ye know, that no
whoremonger, nor unclean person,
nor covetous man, who is an
idolater, hath any inheritance in
the kingdom of Christ and of God.
{6} Let no man deceive you
with vain words: for because of
these things cometh the wrath
of God upon the children of
disobedience. {7} Be not ye
therefore partakers with them.
{8} For ye were sometimes
darkness, but now are ye light in
the Lord: walk as children of
light: {9} (For the fruit of the
Spirit is in all goodness and
righteousness and truth;) {10}
Proving what is acceptable unto
the Lord. {11} And have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works
of darkness, but rather reprove
them. {12} For it is a shame
even to speak of those things
which are done of them in secret.
Prov 24:12 If thou sayest,
Behold, we knew it not; doth not
he that pondereth the heart
consider it? and he that keepeth
thy soul, doth not he know it?
and shall not he render to every
man according to his works?
Mat 16:27 For the Son of man
shall come in the glory of his
Father with his angels; and then
he shall reward every man
according to his works.
Heb 9:27 It is appointed unto
man once to die .. and after that
the judgment.
Gen 6:5-6 And God saw that the
wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually.
{6} And it repented the LORD
that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his
heart.
Jer 17:9-10 The heart is
deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know
it? {10} I the LORD search
the heart, I try the reins, even
to give every man according
to his ways, and according to the
fruit of his doings.
Ezek 18:4 The soul that
sinneth, it shall die.
Jer 17:7-8 Blessed is the man
that trusteth in the LORD, and
whose hope is in him. {8} For he
shall be as a tree planted
by the waters, that spreadeth out
her roots by the river.
She does not fear when heat
cometh; but her leaf shall be
green; and is not anxious in the
year of drought, neither
shall cease from yielding fruit.
Mat 6:19-21 Lay not up for
yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves break
through and steal: {20} But lay
up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor
rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves do not break through nor
steal: {21} For where your
treasure is, there will your
heart be also.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the
kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you.
Mat 7:7-14 Ask, and it shall be
given you; seek, and ye shall
find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you: {8} For every one
that asketh receiveth; and he
that seeketh findeth; and to him
that knocketh it shall be opened.
{9} Or what man is there of
you, whom if his son ask bread,
will he give him a stone? {10}
Or if he ask a fish, will he give
him a serpent? {11} If ye
then, being evil, know how to
give good gifts unto your
children, how much more shall
your Father which is in heaven
give good things to them that ask
him? {12} Therefore all
things whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do ye
even so to them: for this is the
law and the prophets. {13}
Enter ye in at the strait gate:
for wide is the gate, and broad
is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be
which go in thereat: {14} Because
strait is the gate, and
narrow is the way, which leadeth
unto life, and few there be
that find it.
Mat 22:37-40 Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind. {38} This
is the first and great
commandment. {39} And the second is
like
unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself. {40} On
these two commandments hang all
the law and the prophets.
Mat 11:28-30 Come unto me, all
ye that labour and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest.
{29} Take my yoke upon you,
and learn of me; for I am meek
and lowly in heart: and ye shall
find rest unto your souls. {30}
For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light.
Isa 57:20 But the wicked are
like the troubled sea, when it
cannot rest, whose waters cast up
mire and dirt. {21} There is
no peace, saith my God, to the
wicked.
Prov 8:36 But he that sinneth
against me wrongeth his own
soul: all they that hate me love
death.
Matt 12:36 But I say unto you,
That every idle word that men
shall speak, they shall give
account thereof in the day of
judgment.
Matt 13:40-42 As therefore the
tares are gathered and burned
in the fire; so shall it be in
the end of this world. {41} The
Son of man shall send forth his
angels, and they shall gather
out of his kingdom all things
that offend, and them which do
iniquity; {42} And shall cast
them into a furnace of fire:
there shall be wailing and
gnashing of teeth.
Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead,
small and great, stand
before God; and the books were
opened: and another book was
opened, which is the book of
life: and the dead were judged out
of those things which were
written in the books, according to
their works. {13} And the sea
gave up the dead which were in
it; and death and hell delivered
up the dead which were in
them: and they were judged every
man according to their works.
{15} And whosoever was not found
written in the book of life
was cast into the lake of fire.
John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and
said to her, "Whoever drinks
of this water will thirst again,
{14} "but whoever drinks of
the water that I shall give him
will never thirst. But the
water that I shall give him will
become in him a fountain of
water springing up into
everlasting life."
John 7:37-38 On the last day,
that great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried out,
saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him
come to me and drink. {38} "He
who believes in me, as the
Scripture has said, out of his
heart will flow rivers of living
water."
John 8:12 Then Jesus spoke to
them again, saying, "I am
the light of the world. He who
follows me shall not walk in
darkness, but have the light of
life."
Rev 3:19-20 be zealous
therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I
stand
at the door, and knock: if any
man hear my voice, and open the
door, I will come in to him, and
will sup with him, and he with
me.[repentance is the only way to God ]
